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Web
Hosting Glossary - P
Posting
A single message entered into a network communications system. E.g.
A single message posted to a newsgroup or message board.
PPP
(Point to Point Protocol) Most well known as a protocol that allows
a computer to use a regular telephone line and a modem to make TCP/IP
connections and thus be really and truly on the Internet .
Primary
Server
The designation of "primary" means that this name server
will be used first and will be relied upon before any of the other
name servers.
PSTN
(Public Switched Telephone Network) The regular old-fashioned telephone
system.
PERL
Popular Extraction and Report Language, the most widely used language
for programming CGI applications.
Ping
A network management tool that checks to see whether you can communicate
with another computer on the Internet. It sends a short message
to which the other computer automatically responds. If the other
computer does not respond to the ping, you usually cannot establish
communications.
Protocol
A language Computers use when talking to each other.
Parking
(Domain Name)
Registries require the use of name servers or hosts for every domain
registered. Parking is the process by which someone selects a domain
name, and "parks" it by registering the domain name under
someone's name servers. Parking can be done by anyone, to anyone
else who has active name servers. However, parking a domain name
alone will result in no service (webhosting, e-mail) for that particular
domain name.
Propagation
The process whereby the nameservers throughout the world have updated
their records for a specific domain. For example, if you move your
domain from one host to another, it will take around 24 hours or
so for the new address to broadcast everywhere. During that 24 hour
period, the traffic is decreasing at the old location and increasing
at the new location.
PAP
(Password
Authentication Protocol). PAP is the authentication protocol used
over PPP connections.
Peer-to-Peer
network
A
peer-to-peer network is a collection of computers that can communicate
and share information, but that don't have any kind of hierarchical
structure. This is the opposite of the client/server model.
PRI
(Primary
Rate Interface). One of the two ISDN access methods. 23 of 64 Kbps
B channels and 1 64 Kbps D channel constitute a PRI.
Python
Interpreted
programming language, sometimes offered by hosts for server-side
scripting.
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